Islamic State militants destroyed an iconic Iraqi church known for its soaring clock tower by blowing it up with explosives, media reports say.

The Clock Church in Mosul was built in the 1870s, The Telegraph reported Monday. ISIS fighters have shown no mercy to historic sites, also destroying artifacts across the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.

Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III – the last emperor of France – paid for the Mosul tower, historians say.

The tower rose over the rooftops of buildings in Mosul. Dominican monks at the church had to promise they would not climb up the tower and peer down upon residents sleeping on their roofs in the hot summer months.

ISIS did not explain why it targeted the church. The terror group has controlled the city since June 2014.

A number of news outlets said ISIS militants planted explosives under the church and detonated it. The building already had suffered damage from a 2006 bombing….

Just wait until that happens to Notre Dame Cathedral, and many others in the West. We let them in in vast numbers ‘to prove we were cured of bigotry and racism’, and the consequences are all too obvious. The worst thing is, we’ve not seen anything yet.

I sense a business opportunity for a certain entrepreneur “Clock Boy”… He could have the British build a replica of the Clock Church and steal the insides of, let’s say, the Big Ben, to get it working.

I hope so. The Pope Frances is supporting the dialog with Islam as they blow the Churches all over the world. This dialog should stop. We are called to love those who do not love us, but worldwide we eyewitness a call to defend the humanity from destruction.

And very soon they will put the crescent on top of St. Peter in Rome.
The Pope refused to bring from Lesbos the two Syrian Christians (a brother and a sister) and instead brought Muslims to Rome. A Roman Catholic Bishop of Bologna is collecting money to raise a mosque next door.
Jesus said: you are either with Me or against Me. What we see today is the practice of Stockholm Syndrome by many Catholic prelates, not Orthodox. This is why Islam is winning and the Christian civilization is loosing. Our own people departed from the Faith, practice idolatry, clergy practice perversions, women practice abortion, homosexuality and other abominations are more and more recognized by the western governments.

It’s very possible that this Church was demolished because ISIS is in a bad mood, with it’s on-going losses in land and defections and stuff. Or maybe there weren’t enough Christian’s left in Mosul to extort anyway so just screw ’em. Or maybe they don’t like modern technology like a clock.

There are so many reason that Muslims act irrationally and with violence. But without the words attributed to Muhammad and Allah they would never amount to more than the run-of-the-mill problems that have plagued all humanity. It’s the divine sanction, and even command, that Muslims treat non-Muslims as less than human that changes the whole equation. Now someone who is pissed off over a perceived insult to anything Islam has the “obligation” to destroy that person and all he represents (pretty much anything man-made), or at least support the one who commits to their destruction. And because the victim belonged to one of Allah’s “sub-classes” of people, any death or pain caused is both beneficial to mankind and gives pleasure to Allah, and is expected by him (He’s only happy when there’s a waiting line at Hell’s gate ) The minority of Muslims who actually carry out these “duties” are actually acting on “behalf” of the much larger number of Muslims who are perfectly happy letting somebody else do the blowing up of people and stuff.

DRHazard says: “…The minority of Muslims who actually carry out these “duties” are actually acting on “behalf” of the much larger number of Muslims who are perfectly happy letting somebody else do the blowing up of people and stuff.”

I understand from some of Bernard Lewis’ books that the introduction of mechanical clocks started out badly in the Islamic world. The ‘Ulema insisted that time had to be told by observation of heavenly bodies; not mechanical devices. Maybe ISIS is again trying to re-establish pristine Islamic practice.

I see this and the worst part of my nature comes out. I just seethe with hatred and rage and loathing. I LOVE history. I LOVE READING about history. These are full blown crimes against humanity. And our Traitor in Chief is literally yawning. Hell! The SOB is complicit in these atrocities. And I would happily, giddily and with great joy put a bullet in his head just as quick and with even less remorse than I would the head of these terrorists. Legally of course as volunteer for a government appointed firing squad. Hope this works as a disclaimer.

I don’t think I have ever hated any politician with such intense passion as I do this piece of fecal matter polluting the greatest office in the land. I literally can’t even look at his image without my guts getting into an uproar. There has been no president to compare with him. I can say that there had been no president who has done so much damage to this country…..etc. But his crimes go far, far, far beyond that.

If this country still had one ounce of common decency we would be indicting him as a traitor and re-instituting the death penalty for treason , not just trying to indict his underling Hillary.

This country has never known this kind of tyranny where one man has turned this government into his own personal criminal enterprise and one-stop-shop for terrorists and terrorist regimes.

I grew up surrounded by the Greatest Generation. We have now gone from the Greatest Generation to the Generation of Degenerates. It’s bad enough we have these Audio Terrorists in their “boomer cars” destroying the quality of life of whole communities which I have dubbed the “New Rude”. Now we’re going to see, thanks to this traitor’s love fest with our Islamic enemies, the “New Rude” of increasing and regular terrorist attacks like that in my hometown of San Bernardino.

Just like this country gives a collective shrug to all the other symptoms of this country’s decline. This nation of sheep will collectively sit on their media numbed asses saying “there’s nothing you can do about it”.

I’m not a big fan of Trump. But I’m praying to GOD that this country will collectively and finally see the light, finally get fed up with the massive corruption and vote in somebody who at least looks like he’s not beholding to special interests.

I’m one of these guys who was a hippie who rebelled against the establishment as a kid who today knocks his head against solid objects thinking “stupid, stupid, stupid” when I recall what I was thinking and the decisions I made as a young idiot. I’m hoping this country is doing a “stupid, stupid, stupid” when it comes to its voting in this disaster of a president, not once, but twice in a row.

This country has almost gone completely off the rails. During WWII, universities, led by Harvard, stood with the Nazis while tens of thousands of Americans were marching in the streets to defend the Jews and renounce Hitler. Today not only has not one thing changed in our universities but our population is starting to look like the same dullards who brought Hitler to power. Complete with Brown shirted thugs like Only Black Lives Matter, CAIR and the Islamic version of the Hitler Youth, the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine gaining legitimacy even in our high schools. Who are teaching “history” courtesy of Jew/American hating Saudi Arabia. With administrators, politicians and teachers defending this academic perversion almost to the death.

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